Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2025 in Serbia (ID: 22963527)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Ivan25

Organization

N/A

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Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)

Main Proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Wiki Loves Earth 2025 in Serbia

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2025-04-15 - 2025-09-15

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Serbia

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

Wiki Loves Earth

6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)

WLE 2025 is an international photo contest, and Serbia took part in it six times, so far. WLE in Serbia have significant success: First and 15th place in photo contest in 2016, third place in #WikiForHumanRights and second place in video-category in 2024. Last year (2024) was by far the most successful with the highest number of uploaded photos ever and a very successful video category.

WLE 2025 in Serbia will have challenges in securing the continuity of the number of photos at the same level, improving the pilot category for videos and attracting new participants.

First and third challenge will be covered with stronger social networks and public campaigns, especially via our partners (institutions). Second one will be tightly related with campaigns and cooperation with our partner institutions. Our YouTube channel started during the 2024 edition was very prospective, and in the 2025 edition it will be used more often. Special goal will be attracting the Ministry of Environment Protection to become a partner in our WLE mission.

7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.

Review and revise the entire database of existing protected natural heritage and compare them with new lists.
Updating lists and adding new protected natural areas
Make statistics on the coverage of protected natural heritage in Serbian Wikipedia. This can be useful for tracking the metrics of how many new protected natural assets will be covered by new articles. Also, this information may be useful for one of the next CEE Spring projects, where articles would be translated into other languages.
Updating the website and entering all relevant information
Updating guides and instructions with tips on how to take quality photos and how to upload them.
Looking for a local GLAM/or other partner.
Editing and creating templates
Attracting the community
Organizing between 3 and 4 photo tours. (making lists and maps, finding sites, organizing tours, etc)
Organization of competition in May-July and monitoring its process
Providing technical support during photo-uploads.
View and select all submitted photos.
Search and selection of jury members
Prepare tools for the jury
Selection of photos for the jury
Selection of top 10 photos on local level.
Organizing two exhibitions. The first exhibition will be related to the Award ceremony. The second exhibition will be the promotion of the project and the continuation of good practice for the future projects and cooperation.
Send a photo to an international selection.
Creating promotional material.
Running a PR campaign and cooperating with the media.
Regularly sending press clippings and running pages on social networks.
Organization of an edit-a-thon (creation of pages and events, monitoring, providing support, etc.)
Other ad hoc jobs

8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.

Ivan Matejić (Ivan25) - main organizer
Nikola Terzić (Nter25) - tech support
Nevena Matejić (NenaMat) - photo tours
MikyM

9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)

WE 2025 is open for all photographers, both professionals and amateur, and also nature lovers, no matter how experienced they are in photography. Local Wiki community is also gathering around the project. All participants and volunteers will be included in preparation of the photo-contest (promo campaign, social media interactions, public media communication etc), then during the contest there will be a few photo-tours, and Wikipedia edit-a-thons in favor of promoting WLE movement and improving and expanding related articles and themes.

10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)

Yes

10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.

Cooperation with schools is one of the main priorities in this WLE edition. During the WLE 2024, one high school took part in photo tours and a few of them expressed interest in participating in the future. This year one part of the campaign will be dedicated to attracting schools and youth to become active participants of WLE 2025 in Serbia.

All activities are in compliance with Wikimedia Youth Policy

11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.

Local Wiki community on Serbian Wikipedia is informed on Village Pump and also via internal mailing list (for local chapter). Representatives from Institute for Nature Conservation are contacted again, and they are interested in another engagement in the WLE project. (rb.gy/ma4suz)

12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Geography

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Culture, heritage or GLAM

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Not applicable

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement

Learning and metrics

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

All potential learning outcomes from this WLE edition are listed as follows:

How does changes in categories (adding video) affect potential contestants and will that attract other competitors?
Does this project attract new participants?
What are the effects of WLE in Serbia on the development of the informal Wiki community in Serbia?

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics	Target	Optional description
Number of participants	100
Number of editors	20
Number of organizers	5

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia	50
Wikimedia Commons	2500
Wikidata	30
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews	10
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

N/A

19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

Yes

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Used photos (%)	percentage of used photos in Wiki projects in first two months following the competition	10
Photo walking tours	number of organized tours	4
Exhibitions	number of the exhibitions following the competition	2
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)

We will use Wiki statistics on WP, WC, and WLX jury tool for voting. Also for all core statistics https://wikiloves.toolforge.org/ will be used. We also intend to use Wikimetrics and Programs and Events Dashboard tools for the edit-a-thon and other tools such as GLAMorous for category monitoring and tracking image usage.

Financial proposal

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ErMrPo_M9gR9KOrjTdCHZD8C4h61Lb8V2hWvO-O4d4U/edit?usp=sharing

22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

4635 EUR

22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.

4832 USD

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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